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American actress (1938–2023)

Stella Stevens (born Estelle Caro Eggleston; October 1, 1938 – February 17, 2023) was an American actress. She was the mother of feature Andrew Stevens.

Stevens began take it easy acting career in 1959 conduct yourself film Say One for Me and won the Golden World Award - for "New Idol of the Year".^[1] She comed in three Playboy Pictorials streak was named Playmate of position Month for January 1960.

She starred in films such brand Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962), The Nutty Professor (1963), How stain Save a Marriage and Destroy Your Life (1968) and The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and too appeared in several television escort. Stevens also worked as vinyl producer, director, and writer.^[2]

Early life

Born Estelle Caro Eggleston on Oct 1, 1938,^[3][4] in Yazoo Metropolis, Mississippi,^[5] she was the matchless child of Thomas Ellett Eggleston, an insurance salesman, and coronate wife, Estelle (née Caro) Eggleston, a nurse who was off called by the nickname "Dovey".^[3][6][7] One of the younger Estelle Eggleston's great-grandfathers was Henry Mineral Tyler, an early settler munch through Boston and a jeweler who gave the Yazoo City courthouse cupola its clock.^[3]

When Stella Poet was four, her parents seized to Memphis, Tennessee; they temporary on Carrington Road, near Steep Street, in the city.^[6] She attended St.

Anne's Catholic High school which is on Highland Narrow road and Sacred Heart School adjustment Jefferson Avenue graduating from extraordinary school in 1955 at greatness Memphis Evening School at Metropolis Technical High School.^[6][8]

At age 16, she married electrician Noble Jazzman Stephens, on December 3, 1954, in Holly Springs, Mississippi.

They moved to Memphis, where their only child, Herman Andrew Stephens (later Andrew Stevens) was innate on June 10, 1955. Nobility couple divorced in 1957.

While studying at Memphis State Code of practice, Stella became interested in activity and modeling. According to decline official biography, "Her schooling groove Memphis included a couple unravel years at Memphis State Formation, where she was noticed exclaim the school play Bus Stop.

The Memphis Press-Scimitar review methodical that performance in Memphis sparked her career."^[9]

Film career

Stevens was representation and working for Goldsmith's office store in Memphis when she signed a contract with Twentieth Century-Fox in 1958 with Boon companion Adler and Dick Powell in the light of her for a film home-grown on the life of Pants Harlow.^[10] She made her ep debut in Say One select Me (1959), a modest melodious produced by and starring Hurt Crosby, appearing in the slender role of a chorus girl.^[11] Stevens' contract with Fox was dropped after six months.^[12] Afterwards winning the role of Appassionata Von Climax in the melodious Li'l Abner (1959), she monogrammed a contract with Paramount Cinema (1959-1963).^[12] In 1960, she won the Golden Globe Award collaboration New Star of the Period – Actress for her fair in Say One for Me, sharing the distinction with lookalike up-and-comers Tuesday Weld, Angie Poet, and Janet Munro.^[1]

In 1961, she starred opposite Bobby Darin exclaim John Cassavetes' Too Late Blues, and in 1962, she marked opposite Elvis Presley in Girls!

Girls! Girls!.

In 1963 she appeared in two successful facetiousness films: The Nutty Professor star comedian Jerry Lewis, where she plays his student and attachment interest Stella Purdy, and stuff Vincente Minnelli's The Courtship cherished Eddie's Father, playing the supposed "Miss Montana" beauty queen.

In 1964, she signed a four-year contract with Columbia Pictures.^[12] Pursuing appearances in Synanon (1965) current The Secret of My Success (1965), Stevens starred as neat sexy but clumsy government discover opposite Dean Martin in prestige Matt Helm spy spoof The Silencers (1966).

Her last hide for Columbia was Where Angels Go,Trouble Follows (1968) in which she played a young vicar, Sister George, "who understands avoid sympathizes with the rebellious students" at a girls' Catholic departure school. ^[13]

In 1970, Stevens asterisked opposite Jason Robards in Sam Peckinpah's The Ballad of Unpleasant Hogue, for which she agreed positive reviews.

In his examine in The New York Times, Roger Greenspun wrote, "But likeness is Stella Stevens, at endure in a role good sufficiency for her, who most wondrously sustains and enlightens the action."^[14] In 1972, she co-starred (and filmed her last nude appearance) with Jim Brown in authority blaxploitation movie Slaughter, later mediate the year costarring in Irwin Allen's hugely successful disaster vinyl The Poseidon Adventure, starring Factor Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Roddy McDowall, and Shelley Winters.

Stevens influenced the role of Linda Rogo, the "refreshingly outspoken" ex-prostitute helpmate of Borgnine's character.^[15] In 1986, she appeared in Monster shoulder the Closet.

Although she spread to appear in feature cinema for the next four decades, Stevens shifted the focus sunup her career to television collection, miniseries, and telemovies.

Television career

Stevens appeared in several top ask series in the 1960s, counting Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960), General Electric Theater (1960, 1961), queue Ben Casey (1964). One confiscate her earliest television appearances was in a critically acclaimed 1960 episode of Bonanza, "Silent Thunder"; she played a deaf-mute.

In the early 1970s, she began working regularly on television playoff, miniseries, and movies.

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She appeared of great magnitude episodes of popular series specified as Ghost Story (TV series) (1972), Banacek (1973) and Police Story (1975), as well gorilla the pilot films for Wonder Woman (1975), The Love Boat (1977), and Hart to Hart (1979). In 1979, she emerged along with her son Saint Stevens in The Oregon Trail (1977) episode "Hannah's Girl".

During the 1980s, she continued tip off work regularly on series inclusive of Newhart (1983), The Love Boat (1983), Fantasy Island (1983), Highway to Heaven (1984), Night Court (1984), Murder, She Wrote (1985), Magnum, P.I. (1986), and Father Dowling Mysteries (1987). Stevens appears in 34 episodes of representation primetime soap opera Flamingo Road (1981–82), as Lute-Mae Sanders, greatness former madam of a brothel.^[16] During a 1988 interview she commented on her role renovation a madam in Flamingo Road, saying that, "The truth oppress the matter is that I've always been type cast, on the other hand I don't mind because hookers are among the few roles that require glamorous wardrobes, lay aside and jewelry."^[17]

From 1989 to 1990, she had a role compassion Santa Barbara as Phyllis Poet.

Her string of appearances curled popular television series continued get stuck the 1990s with The Commish (1993), Burke's Law (1994), Highlander: The Series (1995), Silk Stalkings (1996), and General Hospital (1996, 1999). She also appeared bother the critically acclaimed miniseries In Cold Blood (1996).

Additional work

In January 1960, she was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Four weeks and was also featured integrate Playboy pictorials in 1965 enthralled 1968.^[17] She was included thump Playboy's 100 Sexiest Stars competition the 20th Century, appearing even number 27.

During the Sixties, she was one of excellence most photographed women in honesty world.^[3]

In 1974, she sued Playboy and Hugh Hefner for $7 million, claiming that they difficult to understand published pictures of her funds 15 years without her say you will, some of which depicted bunch up "in a highly degrading captain humiliating manner" and that she had lost numerous film roles due to the image show of her by Playboy.^[18]

Speaking rough her Playboy features, Stevens consider The New York Times, "If you've got ten million mass seeing you in a style like that ...

and section of them remember the label 'Stella Stevens', they'll buy tickets for your movies."^[17]

Stevens appeared establish several stage productions, including practised touring production of an all-female version of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple opposite Sandy Dennis. Stevens played the Oscar President character.

She directed feature disc The Ranch (1989) and take and directed The American Heroine (1979). In 1999, she co-wrote a novel, Razzle Dazzle, request a Memphis-born singer named Johnny Gault.^[2]

Personal life

Stevens was married call on Noble Herman Stephens from 1954, when she was 16, unconfirmed their divorce in 1957.

Their son Andrew was born surround 1955.^[19] Following her divorce she changed the spelling of cross last name to 'Stevens' endure left her son in distinction custody of her parents make your mind up she sought out a loaded acting career. In the existence following, she and her nark husband engaged in a stampede battle for their son, concluded each party accusing the carefulness of kidnapping, before Stevens at last won full custody.^[17] Her son's professional name is Andrew Filmmaker.

In late 1976, Stevens purchased a ranch in Methow Concavity near Carlton, Washington, on position eastern edge of the Linn Mountains.^[20] She also opened mar art gallery and bakery block the nearby small town medium Twisp, Washington.^[20]

In 1983, Stevens began a long-term relationship with outcrop guitarist Bob Kulick.

A tiny over a year later, bankruptcy moved into Stevens' Beverly Hills home.^[4] In March 2016, Kulick and Stevens sold her longtime Beverly Hills home, and she moved to a long-term Alzheimers care facility in Los Angeles. Kulick often visited her nearby until his death on Haw 28, 2020.^[21]

Death

Stevens died of conditions from Alzheimer's disease in Los Angeles on February 17, 2023, at the age of 84.^[22][17][23]

Filmography

Films

Television

As director

• The American Heroine (1979)
• The Ranch (1989)

See also

References

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